A NUMBER OF fellow Pennsylvanians in
recent conversations and e-mails ask if I
believe that we're ungovernable. Interesting question; I know some think we are.
BECAUSE THERE IS no nuance in elective politics, the question of whether Republican state Attorney General Tom Corbett should resign while running for governor isn't likely to draw an affirmative answer or have much lasting impact.
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IT'S ANOTHER TALE of the high and mighty brought low; another rise and fall, another city politician up from the neighborhood to statewide power cut down by complex charges of abuse.
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I'VE LONG suspected something's in the water up in Scranton, you know, maybe residue anthracite silt making its citizens overenergized when it comes to playing politics.
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WARNING: YOU are entering another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind - an election cycle for Pennsylvania governor with multiple candidates.
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A YEAR AGO today, a nation fearing a crumbling economy and weary of war awoke to new expectations after electing Barack Obama on a premise of hope and a promise of change.
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PENNSYLVANIA voters yesterday gamely reasserted their right to elect statewide judges, an act akin to playing a political lottery. Fifteen candidates for seven spots on three state courts were on the ballot in a municipal election year with no marquee races to generate voter turnout anywhere in the state.
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POLITICIANS GO ga-ga over sports. From using tax dollars to build stadiums, to attending big games with great seats in owners' or donors' boxes, to inviting championship teams to the White House, the state House, City Hall, wherever.
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THE NASTY RACE for state Supreme Court is making yet another strong case for not electing statewide judges. Pennsylvania, no surprise, is among only a handful of states with partisan judicial elections at all levels.
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IT WAS, for a judicial debate, unusually sharp and bitey. The one and only TV face-to-face between state Supreme Court candidates Democrat Jack Panella and Republican Joan Orie Melvin yesterday at Temple Law School was no warmed-over legal fare - it was pretty politically tart.
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THE QUESTION I get most often these days (actually, for a long time now) is: When does Tom Corbett drop the other shoe?
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WAY BELOW the noise of the national health-care debate and the state budget debacle is a whisper of a race for state Supreme Court with possible loud and long-term impact.
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